Abstract
In many modern papers devoted to the calculation of radio emissions from extensive atmospheric showers (EASs) in the 10–100 MHz range, the radiation from EASs of charged particles moving with a velocity higher than the speed of light in air is identified as Vavilov—Cherenkov radiation (VCR). In this paper it is shown that radio emissions from EASs at frequencies less than 100 MHz do not possess the properties of VCR recorded from EASs in the optical range.
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Original Russian Text © N.N. Kalmykov, A.A. Konstantinov, 2009, published in Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta. Fizika, 2009, No. 3, pp. 99–102.
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Kalmykov, N.N., Konstantinov, A.A. Absence of Cherenkov properties of coherent radio emission from atmospheric showers at frequencies below 100 MHz. Moscow Univ. Phys. 64, 339–343 (2009). https://doi.org/10.3103/S0027134909030230
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